TY - GEN
T1 - Determining the potentials of renewable energy sources for distributed generation in ghana
AU - Amewornu, Ernestina
AU - Nwulu, Nnamdi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd 2020.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Electricity is essential for the economic and social development of a country. However, most developing countries are yet to meet the full electrical load demand of their citizens. The generation of electricity in most of these countries is dependent on coal, although there are substantial amounts of renewable resources ranging from biomass, geothermal, solar, wind, hydro, etc. These renewable sources when fully exploited have the potential of significantly improving the level of available and quality electricity at the consumer ends. Significant quantity of electricity can be generated from solar and wind for the purpose of distributed generation (DG). This is based on analysis with the help of RETScreen clean energy project software and HOMER simulation software. In Ghana, the introduction of DG based on available renewable energy is more economical compared with generation from diesel generators, hence the need to pay attention to the development of renewable energy for electricity generation.
AB - Electricity is essential for the economic and social development of a country. However, most developing countries are yet to meet the full electrical load demand of their citizens. The generation of electricity in most of these countries is dependent on coal, although there are substantial amounts of renewable resources ranging from biomass, geothermal, solar, wind, hydro, etc. These renewable sources when fully exploited have the potential of significantly improving the level of available and quality electricity at the consumer ends. Significant quantity of electricity can be generated from solar and wind for the purpose of distributed generation (DG). This is based on analysis with the help of RETScreen clean energy project software and HOMER simulation software. In Ghana, the introduction of DG based on available renewable energy is more economical compared with generation from diesel generators, hence the need to pay attention to the development of renewable energy for electricity generation.
KW - Cost
KW - Distributed generation
KW - Electricity
KW - Gas emission
KW - Renewable energy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85091320091&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-15-5753-8_58
DO - 10.1007/978-981-15-5753-8_58
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85091320091
SN - 9789811557521
T3 - Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering
SP - 631
EP - 640
BT - Advances in Manufacturing Engineering - Selected Articles from ICMMPE 2019
A2 - Emamian, Seyed Sattar
A2 - Yusof, Farazila
A2 - Awang, Mokhtar
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 5th International Conference on Mechanical, Manufacturing and Plant Engineering, ICMMPE 2019
Y2 - 19 November 2019 through 21 November 2019
ER -
